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It's official: Pee-wee is back for another big adventure. Netflix will distribute "Pee-wee's Big Holiday," a new movie starring Paul Reubens as the quirky 1980s stage and screen character Pee-wee Herman, the streaming company announced Tuesday. Confirming a wave of recent reports, Netflix said "Big Holiday" will be produced by Reubens and Judd Apatow, who have been developing the film since 2010, with a script by Reubens and Paul Rust ("Comedy Bang Bang," "Arrested Development"). John Lee ("Broad City," "Inside Amy Schumer") will make his feature-directing debut on the film, with production scheduled to start in...

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It's official: Pee-wee is back for another big adventure.
Netflix will distribute "Pee-wee's Big Holiday," a new movie starring Paul Reubens as the quirky 1980s stage and screen character Pee-wee Herman, the streaming company announced Tuesday....

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For anyone old enough to have come into pop cultural consciousness in the mid-'80s, Pee-wee Herman casts a long shadow -- albeit, an almost transcendently nerdy shadow, one most often recalled dancing atop a bar to the Champs' jaunty instrumental...

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In August, Pee-wee Herman, a.k.a. Paul Reubens, announced that he would return to the spotlight in a re-conceived version of his '80s stage production "The Pee-wee Herman Show" at the Music Box @ Fonda. Now the eternal man-child has announced ...